Re: [orca-list] Braille and Orca Again

["Teresa Cochran" <pipistrelle cox net>]

Thank you, Jason. I'll be following this issue with much interest. I prefer 
Bbraille, especially since I'm gradually losing more and more of my hearing, 
so I'll be looking forward to future develpments and discussion of 
all-things-Braille.

Teresa
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason White" <jason jasonjgw net>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Braille and Orca Again


> Teresa Cochran <pipistrelle cox net> wrote:
> > I don't know how it is that flat review
> > has become the default with braille. Is there a way to force focus
> > tracking mode?
>
> Improved braille support is firmly on the development agenda, but I don't 
> know
> what the plans are.
>
> The option of moving focus by issuing commands on the braille display 
> would be
> an important feature, which as far as I know isn't supported at the 
> moment.
>
> Recent versions of BRLTTY have improved the Brlapi interfaces relied upon 
> by
> Orca, opening the way to much better braille display support.
>
> At the moment, however, Orca's braille support has a significant margin 
> for
> improvement (and please don't treat this as a criticism).
>
> BRLTTY from the console is a lot better in that regard.
>
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